Yes. Also yes, but imho it isn't. Zizek is verbose because he aims to be precise. Sometimes his long-winded sentences generate a reaction of 'so what, everyone knows that' but ime he's often trying to point out something that 'everyone knows' but few have fully thought through.

I mean, did you not read the "If you desire the comfort of neat conclusions, you are lost in this space. Here, we indulge in the unsettling, the excessive, the paradoxes that define our existence." disclaimer?

1) yes

2) no

> Is it bad that I ended up just using chatgpt to summarize that text?

This is called functional illiteracy.

less so than this

Before ChatGPT you might have been able to read and answer questions about a text yourself.